maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

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what it's like being a retro collector in brazil? someone has listed a telebradesco (brazilian bank account info client for the sega mega drive based off the meganet modem cartridge) for $800 (154 USD for gringos)

there's one problem though !!! the BIOS update i want to do takes 5 MB so i can't do it through floppies

i'm gonna have to burn a whole CD for 5 MB aren't i!!!

i'm going to have to use an usb floppy drive and real floppies aren't i.

it's 2022 and i can't find a way to write a msdos (NOT freedos) boot disk to USB

chrome plastic or translucent plastic?

all back in one piece and working great

it's good!

i'm noticing more guff in the diffuser layer but i'm too tired to do it all over again so i'll put it back together for now and now that i know how to get in here maybe some other day i put new diffusers in, maybe even the ones from the old panel if they're the same

transferred the rubber tape over to the new panel, thankfully still plenty sticky

now to clean the panel and the glass and put them together

came out pretty easy from the old panel

unlike the stories about the glass on the sxga+ panel, the xga panel's glass is only stuck around the sides with some thick adhesive, not embedded to the whole panel

i didn't kill it! but while i did clean the most egregious big spot in the middle, even with all the careful wiping and compressed air there's still a hair or two embedded in the panel heh

let's leave well enough alone and take a look at the glass now

it also has no glass in front on the panel so while the digitiser does work fine i'm not comfortable pushing the stylus against it. let's see if i can clean the diffuser and transplant just the glass from my old panel...

it was, however, messed with. i'm fairly sure the person i bought this used from was trying to put it on their non-tablet X61 given it came with a LED backlight mod (which doesn't seem to be installable on the tablet) and in trying to install that they left the diffuser dirty

i now have probably one of the last few SXGA+ X61t tablets

these panels are commonly poached and dismantled to put on non-tablet X61 so there's almost none of them left

surgery

i'm tired. i want to not starve and not be homeless

another day another company rejecting my application without an interview with a human being

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